Preprint publication?

[deweystrontium]

So I'm interested in updating schools with a preprint publication I have. I'm first author and really proud of this work since it's basically the culmination of my thesis. I will be submitting it shortly, but also am putting it up on bioRxiv.

Is this something you guys think I should mention in my LOIs/update letter?

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[LizzyM]

You've been accepted. What's the point at this point in the cycle, superstar?

 

[Bones&Bourbon]

Under the assumption you'd be sending an update to a school from whom you have yet to receive an acceptance, I don't see the harm in it. Now, if you're considering sending an update to a school that's already accepted you...don't. You'd make yourself look like a cocky *insert expletive here*..

 

[CornellMANheh]

You've been accepted. What's the point at this point in the cycle, superstar?

Maybe he wants to get off the waitlist for Penn.

Anyways, would you consider a pre-print to be worthy of mentioning on AMCAS? If so, is it comparable to a publication?

 

[LizzyM]

Maybe he wants to get off the waitlist for Penn.

Anyways, would you consider a pre-print to be worthy of mentioning on AMCAS? If so, is it comparable to a publication?

On AMCAS, yes. Whether that info would be valuable to Penn, that is debatable. If it were sent along with "I'm still interested and feel that Penn is a good fit. I just learned of the pre-print ahead of publication availability of a paper I've co-authored and this is an area I hope to continue to pursue at Penn if I'm admitted..." then okay. But it isn't the sort of thing (not yet having a publication) that landed him on the waitlist and the correction of which would get him off of the list.

 

[CornellMANheh]

On AMCAS, yes. Whether that info would be valuable to Penn, that is debatable. If it were sent along with "I'm still interested and feel that Penn is a good fit. I just learned of the pre-print ahead of publication availability of a paper I've co-authored and this is an area I hope to continue to pursue at Penn if I'm admitted..." then okay. But it isn't the sort of thing (not yet having a publication) that landed him on the waitlist and the correction of which would get him off of the list.

How should we list a pre-print on AMCAS? Under "Publications" or "Other"?

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

How should we list a pre-print on AMCAS? Under "Publications" or "Other"?

I was advised by an adcom to list mine as a pub and put (pre-print) with the citation.

 

[907914]

I was advised by an adcom to list mine as a pub and put (pre-print) with the citation.

Is pre-print pub when it has already been through the review process and accepted for publishing, just not actually published yet? (this seems obvious, I just want to make sure I have the lingo right)

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Is pre-print pub when it has already been through the review process and accepted for publishing, just not actually published yet? (this seems obvious, I just want to make sure I have the lingo right)

Ah I actually got the term wrong. A pre-print is when a paper is shared before peer review. Mine was listed as “in press” because it had been through peer review and was in the typesetting process.

 

[deweystrontium]

Thanks for the advice guys. Yeah, I was planning to send some LOIs to schools I'm waitlisted at and was wondering if this kind of information should be mentioned.